| William Peskett | |
| Nationality: | Northern Ireland |
| Occupation: | poet |
William Peskett (born 1952) is a poet from Northern Ireland.
Peskett was educated in Belfast and at Cambridge University, where he read natural sciences.
He has published two volumes of poems, The Nightowl’s Dissection (Secker & Warburg 1975) and Survivors (Secker & Warburg 1980),[1] for the first of which he won an Eric Gregory Award for poetry.[2] In the 1970s, Peskett edited the poetry magazine, Caret, with Trevor McMahon and Robert Johnstone.[3] He wrote two novels, Pondlife and Losing Yourself. He has worked in teaching, journalism, marketing, design management and corporate relations and lives in Thailand.